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Broken Social Scene are a Canadian Indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. All of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto. The band refuses the label "supergroup," based on size or the ubiquity of their members, claiming that in the indie scene everyone is involved in more than one project. The group's sound could be considered a combination of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. Broken Social Scene is defined by trippy, triple-guitar jams that slowly erupt into moments of brass-blasted rapture. And then it is so much more. It is characterized by grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style from David Newfeld, who produced the second and third albums. The group’s most recent album, Forgiveness Rock Record, was released on May 4 promising to be an album very unlike (and yet very similar) to their other albums. Forgiveness Rock Record marks a clean break from the narrative that began with 2001’s modest Feel Good Lost. As the title not-too-subtly indicates, Forgiveness Rock Record is about making amends for past mistakes, but the album doesn’t linger on the idea of redemption as a way to talk about their pasts, but to inspire you to let go of your own baggage and carry on……………………….. For a band that once sang “it’s all gonna break” like it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, Broken Social Scene have never sounded more together.